Donna J. Haraway (born 1944), is a professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She majored in zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College. In 1972, she completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale University. Between 1971 and 2024 she has held various affiliations including the University of Hawaii (1971-1974), Johns Hopkins University (1974-1980) and University of California, Santa Cruz (1980 to present). Her areas of specialisation include: Science, technology, and medicine studies, feminist theory, relations between life and human sciences, histories of animal-human relationships, cultures of nature and environment, science and politics, and animal studies. Her influential works include: A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century (1985); Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism (1988); Primate visions: Gender, race, and nation in the world of modern science (1989) and Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene (2016).